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Anna= Megan, Don’t know if you read the other Chronicle writer’s blogs, but Justice REALLY dogged UH with his compliment to Rice for their “OWLmaha” T shirts. Said that if Cougars were in a national championship game, you can bet they wouldn’t come up with something as creative.

Soccer, as a sport is okay but….not enough contact for my tastes (some, but not like rugby). Some of those guys (and girls) are freaks. They wake up in the morning and go running. Before they go to bed, they go running! And as for UH not coming up with anything clever, somebody remind Justice about “Phi Slamma Jamma”. And somebody, please: Buy the guy an IRON, for crying out loud. (Mr. Justice, if you would just hang them up after they come out the dryer…)

I’ve seen sombreros, vaqueros and even an Aztec in this clip. I guess the thing with soccer is these World Cup qualifying matches don’t come up often. Some of these people look like they’ve done some serious planning over the past couple of years. But the real killer? Everybody’s sweating except AM! (as cool as the other side of the pillow)

Can you imagine if the Astros had one or two more dominate Latino players? Say a Manny or david Ortiz type of player. You see how we are very passionate fans and we would embrace the next ‘Carlos Lee’. Uncle Drayton should really think about that heading into this next free agent market for the 2008 season and the trade deadline. Alot of untapped $$$$$$$. Just some thoughts.

Yeah except…well…there’s an issue. We’d give him away. Let’s see, Lidge wouldn’t have been so overly exposed so early because we had Dotel. Then there’s Abreu, Santana, Garcia, Taveras (look, with Pence and Taveras working the corners, you probably could have had a brick play centerfield and not known it)….dang, I know Drayton, Gerry and Timmy have given away some other good Latin players. And, yes, H-Town made it to the World Series without Beltran but…you think the anemic product known as the Houston offense circa 2005-2007 would have scored a little bit more with Beltran in the lineup?

Hello Anna-Megan, I’m the guy you interviewed at about 2 mins and 36 secs into the clip. The clip came out great thanks for the interview. It came out to be a great Father’s Day for my Dad (tickets to the game was a present). Is there anyway you can send me the whole footage from the interview you gave me? That would really be awesome. Thanks again for the interview and it helped that my eyes had someone “chula y guapa” to look at while being interviewed.

Soccer I think if I had played this sport maybe I would like it better than I do. However I really tried to get into soccer when the world cup came here. I have watched many soccer games most on TV some in person and even when my children and grandchildren have played it. I wanted to like soccer! It did NOT happen. I will not bore you with the all my problems with this game but just a few.

1 The players flopping like a fish out of water every time they get bumped the euro players have now got that crap going in the NBA.

2 I have watched 3 world cups these are the best players the world has to offer in this sport. The Conner kick? Now and NFL kicker can kick a ball through goal posts 50 plus yards away with many.

300 pound mutants trying to break his legs. But a soccer player with no one rushing him can not get a shot on goal 50% of the time.

One last thing the Houston Dynamo had a crowd last week of 13,000 plus here in Houston.

Mexico plays this weekend and draws 70,000 plus what is up with that.

After posting this blog 24 hours ago you have ten posts here and idea print the soccer blogs in Spanish you will get more hits

The Flopping and Fixing is getting pathetic (See John Lopez’s article today). Not that ANYTHING is gonna be done about it. Soccer refs have replaced Home plate umps as the single biggest corruptors of sports “fairness”. I laughed when Fallas said there would be “teams” short handed by games end in his blog. I predicted only whoever played Mexico would be shorthanded.

Yawn, Astros suck and I have actually been cheering the Royals lately, especially against the Red Birds. I still can’t see what the fuss is about with soccer, other than the next riot or the war it leads to. I’m going to take a nap, somebody wake me when the Texans hit the gridiron.

Soccer does have its hooliganism issues, to be true. I think we even had a case of it here (all this time I thought it was a European ailment). TexKan, to imagine what soccer is to some, just think about the way a&m fans acted between the mid-80s to the early 90s (not like us staid Longhorn fans, no). Or, look at the way fans from, say, Britain will follow their teams all over Europe. And it’s the players. While we here in the states seem to take a perverse pride at times in chopping down sports figures, soccer players are reveled more than reviled. (see David Beckham in Europe vs David in the US)

You may want to keep sleeping if you’re waiting on the Texans. Unless they start Studdard and pair him with someone as mean as Lyle Sendlein-and they have that third good lineman-Green will have nowhere to run (which, for a 10-year guy, makes running even harder) and Schaub will be saying, “hmmm….this spot is more comfortable then the last one” as he lies on the field. Don’t get me wrong: I love my teams from back home but when are we going to get us fixed? Which brings me back to soccer. For all that some have dogged it, what was the last pro franchise from Houston to win anything?